Can a club refuse to release your player card?

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Anonymous wrote:DD and a bunch of her friends want to leave a club mid season. Can a club hold your player card hostage or are they obligated to release it? If they hold it hostage, will a lawsuit press the matter?

It's not even mid season. Why do you want to leave already? You haven't given it a chance.

Right. Do they have the minimal # of players and recognizing it's a struggle to get new players? Or club politics that bad?

We are in a situation like this where it isn't what we thought we signed up for. They lumped several ages into one group and my kid is playing up a couple years... and the fall game season was canceled. I'd like my kid to play on an age appropriate team with some matches.

So are we, although we just left. Understand that sometimes it's not a "grass is greener" type of situation; some families have genuine concerns regarding their child's wellbeing. In our case, our kid was getting bullied by older players - to the point where other parents were noticing and asking us about it (and stating that their own child was experiencing the same behavior), and when we brought it up to the coach, they immediately went on the defensive and even suggested that it was best for our child to find another club. When news got out that my child had left, we had other parents reach out via email and text, highlighting the same concern about the clique that had formed in the team and was bullying younger players or other players who were defending the younger ones, and noting that they, too, were thinking about leaving.

I totally get where OP is coming from - this was the one year where we didn't do the upfront pay prior to the season started, and quite frankly, I'm not inclined to pay a single cent more to a club that won't do anything about it's bullying behavior. It's total bullshit, and yet...we run the possibility of having to fight them so that they'll release our child's player card.

Which club?

FCV. Seriously.

I’m not surprised a coach is defensive in that scenario, but suggesting a new club is bizarre. Maybe he wasn’t supposed to tell you that if the club still wants your $ and business?